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Jack broke apart 5 x 216 as 5 times 200 plus 5 times 16 to multiply mentally what strategy did Jack use?

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Jack used the distributive property and this is because he broke it down into (5x200)+(5x10)+(5x6) and so if you added all of the products you should get 1080 and so thank you for your question.